When I went to the doctor last time the doctor didn't examine me. She came into the office asked why I was there, she barely even listened to me when I tried to explain my symptoms. All I said was I was sick for a month with the flu and now I can't get rid of my cough and I am coughing up brown/green shit. She says "bronchitis" and wrote me a script for amoxacillan and cough syrup with codeine. I also tried to tell her that I have really bad sinus pain, and my ears hurt but she just said "welcome to the rest of the world" and left. I finished my amoxacillan last Thursday and now my cough is back and I am pretty sure I have a sinus infection. I am so fucking pissed off. I want to call her and demand my money back.

When I went to the doctor last time the doctor didn't examine me. She came into the office asked why I was there, she barely even listened to me when I tried to explain my symptoms. All I said was I was sick for a month with the flu and now I can't get rid of my cough and I am coughing up brown/green shit. She says "bronchitis" and wrote me a script for amoxacillan and cough syrup with codeine. I also tried to tell her that I have really bad sinus pain, and my ears hurt but she just said "welcome to the rest of the world" and left. I finished my amoxacillan last Thursday and now my cough is back and I am pretty sure I have a sinus infection. I am so fucking pissed off. I want to call her and demand my money back.

Wow that's a terrible experience. What usually works for me for sinus stuff is antibiotics first for the infection, but treating the symptoms requires 1) sudafed (or some form of phenylephrine) to slow the mucus production 2) mucinex to loosen it up out of your chest and 3) cough medicine so you can sleep.

If you're in a cycle with this you may need a different antibiotic too.
Hope you feel better soon.

In a randomized trial, patients with acute rhinosinusitis had no differences in symptoms or quality of life three days after starting on amoxicillin compared with patients who received a placebo instead, Jay Piccirillo, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"It provides further evidence for what we've really suspected for a long time -- that in the management of patients with acute sinusitis, antibiotics do not convey any additional benefit," Piccirillo said in The JAMA Report.

Lee Green, MD, MPH, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who wasn't involved in the study, said it's "no surprise that [amoxicillin] doesn't help. Sinusitis is almost always viral anyway."

Originally Posted by MotorAve

Careful, while the threats are amusingly clueless, I could probably have this whole board shut down with one phone call.

Audra, have you ever tried a neti pot? I'm totally in love with mine, and they only cost around $12 so it's not a very big investment even if it doesn't end up being something you find helpful. But for me personally, I find it to be tremendously effective in keeping my sinus passages clean and happy.

What the fuck do I care? Look, asshole, somebody came in with a problem and I gave them the solution, the solution being one specific antibiotic. Not because I believe that antibiotics in general would cure her problem, but because that ONE antibiotic would cure her problem. Then you want to shift the conversation into talking about some other stupid and wildly inferior antibiotic that I cannot remember ever having cured fucking anything I was suffering from. Eat two dicks.

Originally Posted by amyzzz

Hannah, I don't know that pigs have big weiners, and my early 20's facination with dogs because of weiner size, I think. If that helps.

Wow that's a terrible experience. What usually works for me for sinus stuff is antibiotics first for the infection, but treating the symptoms requires 1) sudafed (or some form of phenylephrine) to slow the mucus production 2) mucinex to loosen it up out of your chest and 3) cough medicine so you can sleep.

If you're in a cycle with this you may need a different antibiotic too.
Hope you feel better soon.

For sinus issues it's all about saline, saline, saline. Get the neilmed sinus rinse or a neti pot. I prefer the sinus rinse because no awkward head position is necessary. Make sure you use distilled or prviously boiled water, no need to introduce some amoebas into your brain. Also, a dose pack of steroids will work wonders on the inflammation. Take it fro me, a guy who has had surgery 2-3 times a year due to sinus issues, haha.

What the fuck do I care? Look, asshole, somebody came in with a problem and I gave them the solution, the solution being one specific antibiotic. Not because I believe that antibiotics in general would cure her problem, but because that ONE antibiotic would cure her problem. Then you want to shift the conversation into talking about some other stupid and wildly inferior antibiotic that I cannot remember ever having cured fucking anything I was suffering from. Eat two dicks.

You gave them misinformation.

Originally Posted by MotorAve

Careful, while the threats are amusingly clueless, I could probably have this whole board shut down with one phone call.

... why would we want to listen to a guy who has surgery 2-3 times a year? Whatever you're doing sucks.

My issue is with the mucus that builds up, the consistency of it. A "healthy" person will not have those issues so it will work much better for them. Once I started the regimen the time between surgeries grew much greater. I also have some weird bone growth up there that blocks the passage opening

Another tip that my ENT recently mentioned is putting a drop of Johnson's baby shampoo into the sinus rinse bottle along with the salt mixture. It helps lubricate the passages.

My ENT once told me the shit up there is the consistency of cheesecake. Eat up.

Absolutely not; especially when a study touts this or that new drug as being "clinically superior" or, my favorite, "showing negative inferiority" to existing treatment.

But when a professional society, for example, otolaryngology, changes what they've been doing for eons (antibiotics for sinusitis) in lieu of a cheaper, less aggressive, safer strategy, (treat symptoms, no antibiotics unless prolonged illness) that doesn't benefit Big Pharma, I tend to sit up and pay attention.

Last edited by santasutt; 03-10-2013 at 06:08 PM.

Originally Posted by MotorAve

Careful, while the threats are amusingly clueless, I could probably have this whole board shut down with one phone call.